1976 in Denmark

• Monarch – Margrethe II • Prime minister – Anker Jørgensen ==Events==

• 6–7 April – With two gold medals and three silver medals, Denmark finishes as the second best nation at the 5th European Badminton Championships in Dublin, Ireland. Date unknown • Graeme Gilmore (AUS) and Dieter Kemper (FRG) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race. ==Births==

. Peter Gade. JanuaryMarch • 2 February Gudrun Bojesen ballet dancer • 6 February Kasper Hvidt, handballer • 10 March Johan Wohlert, musician AprilJune • 25 April – Kenneth Cortsen, sport management researcher • 26 June – Janus Friis, entrepreneur, co-founder of skype JulySeptember • 28 July – Rasmus Bjerg, actor, comedian • 1 August Søren Galatius, mathematician • 29 August – Jon Dahl Tomasson, footballer • 1 September Heidi Albertsen, model OctoberDecember • 13 October – Cathrine Grage, speed skater, inline skater, and cyclist • 2 November Andreas Mogensen, astronaut • 14 December – Peter Gade, badminton player ==Deaths==

. January–march • 19 February Henrik Sørensen, writer (born 1897) • 7 march – Tove Ditlevsen, poet and author (born 1917) AprilJune • 17 April – Henrik Dam, biochemist and physiologist (born 1895) • 12 May – Kaj Gottlob, architect (born 1887) • 3 June – Viggo Kampmann, politician, former prime minister (born 1910) JulySeptember • 21 September Nils Middelboe, football player (born 1887) • 30 September Aage Fønss, opera singer (born 1887) OctoberDecember • • 29 December Ingeborg Frederiksen, illustrator (born 1886) ==See also==